Example sentences of "[indef pn] [adj] [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Russia customers queue for goods ; in this fashionable men 's clothing store , if we adopt the right perspective , we can see rows and rows of shirts queuing up in wait for someone willing to spend a day 's wages on a monogrammed polo shirt . |
| 2 | To find someone able to do the work look in the LRO ads We recently purchased a 1983 Land Rover County 110 2.25 petrol . |
| 3 | It would presumably not be worth splitting the task into two for small batches because the communication costs between programmer and operator , with the frequent interaction needed given the small batch size , would outweigh the savings made in wage costs from hiring someone semi-skilled to do the machining . |
| 4 | Is someone reluctant to sell the land to you so you can go ahead ? ’ |
| 5 | When someone first joins an organisation , it 's much easier for them to ascertain their new colleagues ' overt status than it is to understand their active status . |
| 6 | ‘ And so often it is better for someone other to make the choosing . ’ |
| 7 | Commenting on the affair , Tolba said that it " should remind us that wherever there is human suffering there is someone ready to make a profit " . |
| 8 | This is a tedious process and to short-circuit the boredom you will often find someone eager to move the motion : " That the minutes of the previous meeting be taken as read . " |
| 9 | Then he said , speaking softly and half to himself , ‘ Suppose she got someone local to make a Will for her and then kept it here ? |
| 10 | The implications of this for the relation between how and the infinitive are exactly the same as with need and dare : if the means of realizing the infinitive 's event are not felt to exist , then there is felt to be nothing real occupying the before-position which real means always occupy with respect to the end pursued , and therefore no to preceding the infinitive . |
| 11 | But apart from the number of police rapidly increasing , their technological and quasi-military capacities shamelessly strengthened , their discretionary powers of apprehension , interrogation , detention , and arrest liberally extended , and new prisons built or old ones extensively refurbished ( all with money the government claims the country has not got to maintain existing standards of education , health , unemployment welfare , and social services ) , nothing much justifies the optimism . |
| 12 | Nothing soft to cushion the fall . |
| 13 | It is sad , first of all , that so many educated people miss all the fun that is in good science ; how many hours they spend at dinner parties with nothing substantial to pass the time , and how many acres of The Observer have been devoted to the to-ings and fro-ings of Guy Burgess and the annotated laundry lists of D. H. Lawrence , because the impeccably educated editors of that mercifully ailing rag do not know , after they have worked through the football and the statutory theatre crits , what is interesting . |
| 14 | And there 's nothing better to stimulate the mind and develop creativity than this brightly coloured Wooden Railway from Brio . |
| 15 | A minute is kept of the meeting and everyone present receives a copy . |
| 16 | Owen Patterson , managing director of the family firm , said : ‘ We are trying everything possible to save the company in the face of a continuing drop in orders . |
| 17 | ‘ We are trying everything possible to save the company in the face of a continuing drop in orders . |
| 18 | The judge asked the two parties to do everything possible to reach a reconciliation of the issue . |
| 19 | Do everything possible to oppose the Poll Tax . |
| 20 | ‘ We would do everything possible to set the record straight . ’ |
| 21 | The petition states : ’ Wherefore , your petitioners pray that your honourable House , which is committed to upholding respect for human life and protection of the weak and vulnerable , will do everything possible to prevent the distribution and use of mifegyne ( known as RU486 ) and any other drugs which , like it , are produced with the deliberate intention of destroying innocent human life . |
| 22 | Today it is customary to have children removed to hospital , and to do everything possible to avoid a scene which might embarrass all present . |
| 23 | THE Irish Republic looked set for an early General Election last night despite claims by Prime Minister Albert Reynolds that he was doing everything possible to avoid a poll . |
| 24 | Our solicitors have done everything possible to show the work is not negligent . |
| 25 | The union did everything possible to convince the government that this had done no more than mop up previously persistent unemployment in the industry and to persuade its members to join their ships , and to do so on time , so that their departures should not be delayed . |
| 26 | the difference here is that C&P really mean what they say and are doing everything possible to make the quality improvement process happen . |
| 27 | In his 1927 Manifesto to intellectuals Barbusse argued that they should do everything possible to help the birth of a new society . |
| 28 | Avon County Council said yesterday that it had done everything possible to help the family . |
| 29 | It stops the jesses becoming twisted , and it also gives you something strong to attach a leash to . |
| 30 | Her voice blew away the cobwebs and I put on something respectable to cross the road ; she sounded like a child going to a party . |